ambagitory
ambagitory adjective: periphrastic or circumlocutory.
Adjective
ambagitory (comparative more ambagitory, superlative most ambagitory)
- periphrastic or circumlocutory
- But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn’s essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity...1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley,, page 151
- He read, long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambigatory expressions they made use of, prevent the shrewd eye of Markham...1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock or the cavalier: a tale of the year sixteen hundred and fifty-one, Archibald Constable and Co., page 75
Forms of ambagitory
| comparative | more ambagitory |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ambagitory |
Questions about ambagitory
- What does ambagitory mean?
- Ambagitory means periphrastic or circumlocutory.
- What part of speech is ambagitory?
- Ambagitory is an adjective.
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